VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump issues unhinged response to bombshell indictment
The disgraced ex-president and man who should stop firing his proofreaders flipped out at being “indicated” by prosecutors for the first time in both his life and in ex-presidential history, painting himself as the most persecuted man ever and making sure to lay on the anti-Semitic dogwhistles in his ravings. Sad!

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State Rep. Pamela Stephenson delivers stunningly powerful speech in response to Kentucky’s draconian anti-trans bill
As heartless Republicans voted to override the governor’s veto of a devastating package of institutionalized anti-trans bigotry, one rep called out their cruelty to their faces in one of the most moving speeches you’ll ever see.

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Four days until the most important election of 2023
Wisconsin Democrats: Electing Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the ONLY way we can protect abortion rights, thwart voter suppression, undo gerrymanders, and keep Trump’s goons from stealing the election in 2024! Will you make a donation to propel us to victory in this must-win race?

DeSantis says Florida “will not assist” in a Trump “extradition” after grand jury indictment
After tippy-toeing around a potential Trump indictment, DeSantis has proved he’s yet another Republican wet noodle by issuing a statement promising to fight any efforts to legally extradite the Florida man from his ketchup grotto at Mar-a-Lago. But since Trump is going to turn himself in, there is no extradition, and this grandstanding is nothing but a desperate way to insert himself into the story and raise his OWN profile off the coattails of another.

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Missouri GOP votes to defund public libraries
The Republican-controlled state House has put forth budget bills that would eliminate all state funding for libraries in Missouri, $4.5 million in total. The move accomplishes two primary right-wing goals: freeing up more money for tax cuts and dumbing down the voting populace even further.

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Texas judge strikes down free HIV drugs, cancer screenings under Obamacare
Bush-appointed Judge Reed O’Connor has struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, jeopardizing free coverage of a wide range of preventive services including mammograms, colonoscopies and mental health screenings for the nearly 168 million people on employer health insurance and on Obamacare’s individual market. It is not hyperbolic to say people will die in droves if this holds. Appeals have been filed posthaste by the Biden team.

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Ivanka Trump is so over helping out her embattled dad, report says
Like, omg. She’s just so over it. Once her father’s trusted right-hand woman, Ivanka apparently “no longer” has a, like, professional relationship with him because she thinks he’s, like, “impossible” and believes that the only ones who can, like, “help” him now are his lawyers and advisers. Sources says that she like, “wants a new life” and feels entitled to compensation for the four years she “lost” in the White House — which is an deranged thing to say given the fact that the entire Trump family treated the US government like their personal expense account and siphoned literally millions of dollars into their pockets. But now that the gravy train is off, Ivanka just wants to be able to go to brunch again without her friends badgering her about the time her dad tried to overthrow the government. Life can be sooooooooo hard sometimes :'(

Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid prosecution BLOWS UP in his face
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This did not turn out well for Trump…

1-year-old allegedly fatally shot by 5-year-old sibling at apartment
Who’s the “bad guy” when a toddler kills another toddler? The Republican legislators who put the gun within arm’s reach, and made guns the leading cause of death among children in America. It’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the gun it’s the gu—

Hundreds of passengers have said they were sexually assaulted on cruise ships. Their stories highlight years of lax security, critics say
In dozens of court documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News, cruise ship passengers say they have been dragged into cabins and raped, pushed into janitors’ closets and assaulted, and even attacked in the public corridors of ships. Likewise, parents and guardians have alleged that their children were molested by other passengers or crew members, plied with alcohol, and in some instances, abused by daycare staffers at onboard activity centers. As recently as two weeks ago, the parents of a 17-year-old passenger filed a civil suit alleging she was raped by a fitness instructor onboard a Carnival cruise ship. It’s time for a full federal intervention.

Ex-Fox producer said she gave misleading testimony in Dominion case “to keep my job”
Abby Grossberg, the former Fox News producer who accused the Republican propaganda machine of pressuring her into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion defamation case, said in her first TV interview that she was “bullied, intimidated and coerced” into protecting the right-wing network to keep her job. The possibility that she and others may have been suborned into giving false statements, perhaps even perjuring themselves in the process, really feels like some the Justice Department should immediately begin rigorously investigating.

San Jose police union exec charged with attempt to import and sell massive amounts of fentanyl
While Republicans in Congress howl bad faith nonsense about how President Biden hates the police and has lax border policies, a shocking case highlights how the flow of drugs into the country often comes through…the police themselves. The PRESIDENT of the San Jose police union has been charged in a scheme to distribute drugs, including fentanyl. Federal prosecutors allege that she ordered thousands of pills online and intended to distribute them throughout the United States. Is THIS what Republicans mean by law and order?

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Lauren Boebert comes unprepared to her own hearing, gets humiliated by guest
Boebert thought she had a “gotcha” moment all lined up — on the subject of public urination, of all things — but obviously didn’t do her homework and it did NOT go well. LOL.

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Kevin McCarthy begs reporters to ask him about “anything else” except the Nashville massacre
The Coward of the House — for speak he wouldn’t — ran away from reporters demanding some sort of comment on the slaughter of three kids and three teachers at a school in Nashville and refused to answer any questions. “Okay, let me just tell you, I’m not going to answer any questions. You can walk with me; we can talk about new movies, we can talk about your lives, we can talk about what you’re doing for Easter. Anything else” said McCarthy. The top ranking Republican in the US is happy to talk about anything except the most basic and important fucking part of his job: protecting American kids.

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Right-wing billionaires are destroying America’s newsrooms
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Video shows Mexican guards walking away as deadly immigration detention facility fire rages
Horrifying footage shows Mexican guards leaving the building with migrants still locked inside as the fire that would eventually kill 38 at the Ciudad Juárez detention center raged. While the guilt rests with those guards and with the Mexican government for not moving to save the migrants fast enough, the grim fact remains that these innocent immigrants were in this detention center thanks to the United States’ cruel and inhumane immigration policies, including the Trump-era Title 42 that the Biden administration has fought hard to continue using.

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Despite emotional pleas, one of country’s strictest anti-trans bills becomes law in Kentucky
Heartless GOP Senators and state Reps voted on Wednesday to override Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of SB 150, a horrific bill that bans all discussion of sexuality and gender in schools, allows teachers to deadname their students, bans gender-affirming healthcare for trans teens and even forces those already transitioning to detransition. The law will be challenged in court, but let’s be really clear here: Children will die because of this bigoted legislation. Period. Children will die.

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Rep. Jamaal Bowman calls out Republican cowardice on gun violence to their faces
Rep. Bowman, a former middle school principal, lost his patience with the Republican refusal to do anything about school shootings in a confrontation with gun yahoo Thomas Massie. “They’re all cowards! They won’t do anything to save the lives of our children at all! Pressure them, force them to respond to the question: Why the hell won’t you do anything to save America’s children? Let them explain that all the way up to Election Day on 2024!” yelled Bowman. We couldn’t agree more!

Permit to buy handgun no longer required in North Carolina

In the wake of the 130th mass shooting of the year, North Carolina Republicans took it upon themselves to make it EASIER to buy guns, overriding the governor’s veto and rescinding the need for a permit to purchase handguns. Once again, Republicans have witnessed our children being slaughtered in school and reacted by arming their killers.

Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid prosecution BLOWS UP in his face
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This did not turn out well for Trump…

Matt Gaetz’s legislative aide is a convicted war criminal
Because of course he is. It appears that Gaetz was intent on finding a military advisor as unhinged and as morally bankrupt as he is, finally landing on one Derrick Miller, who was court-martialed and sentenced to life in prison for shooting 27-year-old Afghan Atta Mohammed in the head during an interrogation and then throwing his body in a latrine. These two criminals may have found their soulmates.

Fox News aired Dominion voting myths despite its “Brain Room” saying they were wrong
Apparently the “Brain Room” at Fox News does not have to do with performing lobotomies on the hosts of Fox & Friends but actually is where “fact checking” is ostensibly done, though you’d never know based on watching the network’s shows. That’s because court documents revealed Fox News hosts knowingly ignored the in-house fact checkers and aired preposterous conspiracies about Dominion Voting Systems anyway — even though Fox’s own executives admitted they never should have.

Republicans kill plan to feed state’s hungry children
The rah-rah anti-abortion Republicans in North Dakota care so little about the kids they will force to be born that they voted down a bill that would give free lunches to poor kids. “I can understand kids going hungry, but is that really the problem of the school district? Is that the problem of the state of North Dakota? It’s really the problem of parents being negligent with their kids!” asked Sen. Mike Wobbema. No, it’s just basic human decency — something the GOP seems to lack in every state.

Manchin poison pill forces Biden team to move ahead with massive Gulf of Mexico drilling auction
A key provision of the President’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act slipped in by Joe Manchin forces the government to put more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico up for auction for gas and oil development. Fortunately, climate organizations have immediately filed lawsuits to stop the auction and have been previously successful in stopping similar auctions before in the past, which the Biden team may have been counting on when they agreed to it in the first place. If it does go through, however, the White House estimates that 21.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide will be released into the atmosphere — a disaster for our climate.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jon Stewart goes megaviral destroying Trump on air
The beloved comedian beautifully roasted the disgraced ex-president for his many crimes and his increasingly absurd efforts to wriggle out of facing the music.

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Republican congressman says “we’re not going to fix” school shootings
When confronted by reporters about the horrifying massacre at a Nashville Christian school, Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett spoke for the entire GOP when he said “we’re not going to fix” school shootings and then excused his cowardice and inaction by claiming Congress couldn’t do anything “other than mess things up.” It is a uniquely American problem that the leading cause of easily preventable death for children is gun violence, and as the majority party in Congress, it is the GOP’s literal job to do something about it, but they won’t lift a finger.

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Radical Speaker McCarthy is a huge problem for America
John Burrows for Congress: John Burrows is the young, charismatic leader we need to solve that problem and send McCarthy packing. We can’t risk another day — let alone two more years — of letting Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz pulling Kevin McCarthy’s strings and turning our Congress into a circus of conspiracy. Can you chip in to send John Burrow to Congress and send McCarthy home in disgrace?

Head of Chicago police union threatens mass resignations, “blood in the streets” if Brandon Johnson wins mayoral election
In a reprehensibly undemocratic show of thuggery, FOP President and MAGA extremist John Catanzara threatened a work stoppage and violence if the city elects a mayor who might try to hold them accountable for their excesses. He literally says the quiet part out loud — that the police’s commitment to their community is wholly contingent on who is in charge and what limits their superiors might put on their behavior or budget. So much for “protect and serve!”

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Biden’s rightward shift linked to hire of new Chief of Staff
Recently, the Biden White House has taken a very abrupt and very unwelcome shift to the right, as seen in the controversial decisions to approve the catastrophic Arctic drilling “Willow” project, a crackdown on immigration and the forcible overturning of Washington D.C.’s criminal code reforms. It would appear that the culprit is Jeffery Zient, an Obama alumn and lifelong corporate stooge who was brought in to replace Ron Klain as chief of staff. Ultimately, the President needs to remember his supporters want him to continue fighting for the progressive agenda that will serve the country and people.

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Remembering the victims of the Nashville school shooting
Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney were all only nine years old. Haillie was the daughter of the pastor connected to the church. Katherine Koonce, 61, the principal of the school, also lost her life, along with a custodian, Mike Hill, 60 and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61. May their lives be the last we have to memorialize in this agonizing fashion.

Idaho GOP introduces bill to ban traveling out of state for abortions
Not content with their already draconian ban on abortion care, Idaho Republicans are doubling down and are set to pass a bill that would make it a felony to take a minor out of state to receive abortion care, and would even allow the father of said child to sue abortion providers out of state. Republicans are trying to sell this deeply invasive and almost certainly unconstitutional hogwash as just being concerned for “parental rights” — but somehow, the teen who is about to BECOME A PARENT is the one who has no rights.

Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid prosecution BLOWS UP in his face
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This did not turn out well for Trump…

Alabama governor sends education dollars to water park
It feels like it would be beyond parody for a Republican governor to use funds intended for education on a water park, but that’s exactly what Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama is planning to do. Her new budget allocates $331 million to projects and expenses unrelated to students or teachers, including $25 million to a struggling water park project that has already sucked up $50 million in public funding. One might think Alabama’s dismal, bottom-ranked education system might use the funds better…but think of all the educational opportunities found at a water park!

New York grand jury not expected to vote on possible Trump indictment this week
The grand jury is not expected to hold their next scheduled meeting on Wednesday, possibly to review Monday’s new evidence from National Enquirer ex-publisher David Pecker and ensure they have the tightest legal case they can possibly bring against the disgraced ex-president.

Dominion wants Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and other Fox hosts and executives to take the stand at trial
The main villain in Fox’s obviously nonsense 2020 election conspiracies is out for blood — and wants to see the worst liars in the country squirm from the witness stand, under oath, as they admit that they knew they were lying. For the good of the nation, this trial needs to be broadcast on national television.

Wisconsin school district bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet with ‘rainbow’ in title
If you thought the anti-LGBTQ backlash couldn’t get any stupider, here’s a school banning a song from being performed by a first grade class because…its “controversial” lyrics involve themes like “getting along” and “loving each other” and “different race and genders and religions.” It seems that even the most basic precepts of kindergarten education are being rewritten to suit the GOP’s agenda of hate.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Mother hijacks Fox News feed after Nashville massacre
The right-wing “news” network regularly pushes gun fetishist propaganda, but their viewers were given a rare dose of raw truth about gun violence when an outraged woman stepped in front of their cameras and unleashed a blockbuster speech in the wake of the horrifying mass shooting at a private Christian school in Tennessee.

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Biden renews push to ban assault weapons in wake of Nashville shooting
Six people are dead — including three children — after yet another shooter opened fire with assault-style rifles inside an elementary school in Nashville. Republicans are already working to spin up narratives to distract from the obvious and undeniable role that guns play in these tragedies, but President Biden is looking the problem right in the face. He is once again calling for a ban on assault weapons, one thing we KNOW would save lives — and one thing gun-obsessed Republicans will fight tooth and nail to oppose.

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Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid prosecution BLOWS UP in his face
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This did not turn out well for Trump…

Former National Enquirer publisher testifies before Trump grand jury
Last week, many predicted that Donald Trump would be arrested for his illicit hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. When the indictment failed to materialize, MAGA fans rejoiced, thinking their Dear Leader was out of the woods. Now, it appears that prosecutors were simply biding their time so they could present more evidence to the grand jury. On Monday, the former publisher of the National Enquirer gossip rag that almost purchased Daniels’ story appeared before the jury to share what he knows about the sordid affair.

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Supreme Court won’t review bullshit contempt conviction of environmental lawyer in Chevron case
The Supreme Court lent serious support to the notion that it’s a fundamentally illegitimate institution after deciding to leave in place the conviction of attorney Steven Donziger — a long-time foe of Chevron Corp. — who sought to challenge the appointment of private attorneys to prosecute his alleged criminal contempt of court. The prosecution of Donziger is obviously a corporate hit job. He’s “guilty” first and foremost of representing farmers and indigenous people hurt by oil companies, and those companies are trying to make an example of him. The fact that they’re able to so easily exploit our judicial system to achieve those ends just demonstrates how deeply embedded the corrupt roots of big money are in our judicial system.

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“I live near the East Palestine chemical spill. Officials who say we’re safe are lying”
A firsthand account from someone directly affected by the toxic train derailment in Ohio has shredded the narrative that things are perfectly fine in East Palestine. Greg Mascher describes experiencing headaches and coughing fits, while his granddaughters have suffered red skin splotches and burning eyes. He’s also lost weight from the stress, and his family is now split apart. Like so many environmental disasters, we won’t know the full impact for decades, but action must be taken immediately to ensure that victims in East Palestine and beyond are taken care of now — and in the future — and that preventable catastrophes caused by negligent corporations never happen again.

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Netanyahu temporarily suspends judicial overhaul after mass protests across Israel
Israel’s radical-right prime minister attempted a naked power grab that some predicted would result in an outright dictatorship or possibly civil war, but Israelis took to the streets en masse to protest the brazen overreach. Netanyahu has now blinked in the face of unprecedented backlash and halted his heinous assault on his country’s democracy — for one month. In exchange, the openly racist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says he will be allowed to form his own private armed militia — a “National Guard” — that would exist outside the authority of the police and would be staffed entirely with violent extremists. What could possibly go wrong?

Top Fed official: Silicon Valley Bank mismanagement led to failure
Shocker! Once again, an American financial institution has failed because the people grossly overpaid to run it screwed up. The same reckless ethos and rank incompetence that caused the 2008 crash is still blithely steering this country’s economy, and, unless serious structural changes are made, we are destined — if not now, then not too far down the road — for another cataclysmic disaster.

American mega-landlord Blackstone Group is gobbling up affordable housing in San Diego, hiking rent prices
A damning new report reveals that Blackstone Group purchased thousands of affordable housing units in San Diego County in 2021 and almost immediately began jacking up rental prices. As renters moved out, the company raised rents in some units as much as 64% in just two years. Left unchecked, this predatory and frankly evil behavior will exacerbate America’s already horrendous housing crisis to the breaking point. Housing is a human right, folks. It’s time we started treating it as such.

Fox News producer who sued network over her Dominion testimony says she was fired, calls ex-coworkers “activists, not journalists”
So…you’re telling us that the blowhard teleprompter readers who regularly melt down over books with big words in them, Black history, the gender of M&Ms, Hunter Biden’s genitals, and Starbucks’ “War on Christmas” aren’t serious reporters?

Florida school removes “Ruby Bridges” movie from classes after parent complaint
The Republican Party’s war on the very concept of history itself is amping up even further in Florida as Ron DeSantis’ decision to empower parents to gut school curriculums spirals out of control. One parent in particular had an issue with her child watching a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the brave little Black girl who integrated American schools in the 1960s, so now none of the children at her school can watch it. Sounds about white.

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Trump’s favorite extreme think tank is jumping ship for DeSantis
The ongoing feud between the two repugnant Floridians jostling to lead the GOP into the abyss and beyond in 2024 reached new heights as the radical-right Claremont Institute, which played a crucial role in normalizing Trump’s total bullshit Big Lie scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss, abandoned Don for Ron in next year’s presidential race. Sad!

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump’s lawyer suffers humiliating beatdown on national TV
Al Sharpton took Trump attorney Joe Tacopina to task on MSNBC for his obvious lies and distortions in the ongoing porn star hush money debacle the disgraced ex-president just can’t seem to shake.

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Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid prosecution BLOWS UP in his face
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This did not turn out well for Trump…

Despite local pilot programs in select cities, national reparations for slavery still firmly opposed by most non-Black Americans
Local reparations programs — in about a dozen cities and the state of California — have renewed hopes for an eventual national policy to compensate for for the reprehensible crime of chattel slavery. But after decades of lobbying and three years of a national reckoning over race, non-Black Americans overall remain strongly opposed to the idea, driven in part by what Yale social psychologist Michael Kraus calls a “collective willful ignorance” on the nation’s persistent wealth gap.

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Deputies accused of shoving guns in mouths of 2 Black men
In a shocking yet familiar refrain, several deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019 that left two dead and another with lasting injuries. Two of the men allege that sheriff’s deputies shoved guns into their mouths during separate encounters. In one case, the deputy actually pulled the trigger, leaving the man with wounds that required parts of his tongue to be sewn back together. Serve and protect, eh?

Mass protests rage in Israel as unions join historic strike
Israel has been brought to a standstill by a historic general strike, as anger and unrest at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nefarious plans to weaken the judiciary and undermine fundamental democracy reached fever pitch. The protests that have been raging for months escalated over the weekend and continued into Monday, when hundreds of thousands of strikers from basically every industry brought much of the country to a halt.

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Parts of Twitter’s source code illegally leaked online
Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, creating further challenges for billionaire tech bozo Elon Musk, who’s been hemorrhaging cash and credibility during his disastrous time at the helm of the social media behemoth.

Anti-abortion Republicans are pushing state legislation to undermine election results to impose and enforce restrictions
Individual liberty! Personal freedom! Don’t tread on me! The best government is that which governs least! Except when it doesn’t. Which is when we say so. Because, actually, we’re full of shit. And we want to control women’s bodies and impose theocratic morality codes on the masses according to cherry-picked passages from our favorite book. Got it? Good.

Philly residents told to drink bottled water after chemicals spill into Delaware River
Bucks County, Pennsylvania health officials said Sunday that a leak late Friday evening at the Trinseo Altuglas chemical facility in Bristol Township spilled between 8,100 and 12,000 gallons of a water-based latex finishing solution into the river. Wonderful.

“Lessons have not been learned”: FDA knew of positive test months before latest infant formula recall
A recent recall of infant formula was announced nearly three months after Food and Drug Administration officials first learned that some products at a major plant had tested positive for bacteria — an unconscionable delay that mirrors the agency’s exasperatingly slow response to reports of food safety problems and infant deaths ahead of last year’s massive recall over the same type of bacteria.

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Trump takes aim at DeSantis, vows to “destroy the deep state”
With his first arrest looming, the disgraced ex-president vowed to destroy his imaginary persecutors in the “deep state” during a campaign pep rally Saturday and took several pot shots at Florida Gov. and autocrat-in-training Ron DeSantis. He knocked his fellow Floridian and one-time ally as political hack with zero personality. Even a broken clock, amirite?

Take Action: Expel the congressmen who tried to get Trump pardons for their role in Jan. 6th!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jack Smith scores huge win over Trump in court
Another former Trump official gets owned by the special prosecutors as the walls close in on the soon-to-be indicted ConMander-in-Thief. (What do we think about that one? Just thought of it. Too much? DM us.)

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Biden declares major disaster in Mississippi as forecasters warn of more tornadoes after 26 were killed
The National Weather Service warned that severe thunderstorms will bring “the possibility of a couple of strong tornadoes” across the central gulf states on Sunday.

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MAGA Rep. Andy Biggs gets embarrassing on-air fact check about January 6
The bigoted Trump gas bag forgot that outside of the Fox propaganda machine, lying about basic facts can make you look like a liar and idiot.

Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law
Yes. You read that right. Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill authorizing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older, even more heinous methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

Take Action: Tell Biden and state governors to abolish the death penalty!

Ted Nugent calls Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a “homosexual weirdo” in Trump pep rally tirade
The disgraced ex-president held one of his signature pep rallies in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, and for some reason, Ted Nugent showed up with his dumb guitar and even dumber ideas, ranting about abortion, military aid, the war in Ukraine, and “jack-booted thugs” in Washington, DC wrongfully imprisoning Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

Republicans make fatal mistake amid impending Trump indictment
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: What a dumb move…

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For-profit prison operator GEO sickened ICE detainees with hazardous chemicals for months, a lawsuit says
In news as appalling as it is unsurprising, a for-profit prison operating business — yes, that’s literally a thing — has been accused of improperly using toxic cleaning chemicals for years, exposing detainees at numerous facilities to months-long, near-constant exposure resulting in persistent cough, throat and nasal irritation, skin irritation, rashes, and headaches, among other symptoms. We can and must do better.

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“Cancer Alley” residents’ zoning lawsuit cites “racial cleansing”
Making a compelling case that their local government was built on a culture of white supremacy, Black residents of St. James Parish in the heart of Louisiana’s “cancer alley” have filed a federal lawsuit claiming land-use and zoning policies illegally concentrated more than a dozen polluting industrial plants where they live.

Trump claims Manhattan DA has “dropped” Stormy Daniels hush money indictment
The disgraced ex-president told reporters aboard his plane on Saturday — without evidence — that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had already dropped the case against him in the infamous porn star hush money probe. Yeah, we’ll just sit tight and wait to hear from DA Bragg next week, thanks.

As southern states bans abortion, thousands turn to Illinois clinics
Republicans’ relentless assault on reproductive rights, coupled with the Supreme Court’s disastrous overturning of Roe v. Wade last year, has upended and endangered the lives of tens of thousands of Americans. Hundreds of women now travel each week to the southern tip of Illinois to secure an abortion, something that is no longer available to millions living in a 1,800 mile stretch of 11 Southern states that have banned or severely restricted pregnancy terminations over the past year.

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George Santos finally admits he committed fraud in Brazil
Rock guitar legend and hall of fame hulahooper, George Santos, is formally confessing to the crime of committing check fraud, agreeing to pay damages to his victim in Rio de Janeiro. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has refused to discipline the serial fraudster in any way, but in his defense, he’s probably exhausted from licking the boots of the serial fraudster who tried lead a violent insurrection against the United States.

Take Action: Remove McCarthy as Leader for his role in the January 6th insurrection!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump issues most dangerous threat yet in unhinged public meltdown
The failed former president has ratcheted up the rhetoric against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, warning on his social media platform of “potential death and destruction” if he’s indicted by the New York grand jury investigating his illegal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. It’s tempting to dismiss this as just more desperate rhetoric from a scared, enfeebled man with no care for norms or institutions, but we saw what happened on January 6th, so we hope authorities are treating this seriously.

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A real progressive champion is coming to Congress!
Lateefah Simon: Lateefah Simon is running for an open seat in Northern California, and we could not be more excited! She has been a hugely effective community leader on public transit, affordable housing, and working people. Please add your name to give her your endorsement!

Michigan repeals deceptively named “right-to-work” law in massive victory for workers and unions
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the law, overturning the GOP’s silver bullet anti-union law that’s been so successfully implemented in Republican-controlled states across the country. The maliciously misnamed “right-to-work” laws are designed to weaken unions’ ability to fight for workers, and Michigan is now the first state to axe one of the laws in 60 years – a huge win for workers’ rights.

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Manhattan DA receives death threat in letter with white powder
Just hours after Trump issued his threat of “death and destruction” to his followers on his social media platform (see above), the Manhattan district attorney’s office received a package containing a suspicious white powder and a message that read, “Alvin—I’ll kill you.” Thankfully, emergency personnel arrived and removed the package before any harm could be done, but given the course Trump is on, it’s only a matter of time before someone really gets hurt – or worse.

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Judge orders Trump associates to testify before January 6th grand jury
U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell ruled that Trump’s former inner circle, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, National Security Advisor John Ratcliffe, and white nationalist advisor Stephen Miller, can no longer hide behind non-existent executive privilege protections that don’t cover former presidents’ lackeys. They must testify before the criminal grand jury investigating Trump’s role in the plot to overturn the 2020 election and tell them what they knew, and when they knew it. About. Damn. Time.

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Democrats call Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bluff and ruin her 1/6 prison visit stunt
The MAGA Republican pulling Kevin McCarthy’s strings tried to conduct another dog and pony show at a DC jail where defendants awaiting trial for their roles in the January 6th insurrection are being held. A pair of Democratic lawmakers, however, crashed her party and toured the facility with her. You’re not going to believe this, but Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Jasmine Crockett of Texas told reporters, “These are people that are being treated quite fairly,” a stark contrast to the “human rights abuses” MTG insists prisoners are being subjected to.

Republicans make fatal mistake amid impending Trump indictment
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: What a dumb move…

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First Republic Bank paid founder and family millions in years leading up to collapse
James Herbert, who founded the now-failed bank in 1985, was paid $17.8 million in 2021 – much much more than CEOs at similarly-sized banks – while his son managed to pull in $3.5 million directing a lending unit, and a consulting firm owned by his brother-in-law racked up $2.3 million from First Republic for “advisory work,” according to the Wall Street Journal. This is all in addition to already revealed bombshells that top executives dumped stock in the weeks and months before last week’s collapse.

House GOP passes “parents bill of right” dog whistle to anti-trans, anti-Black radicals
One in eight US children go to bed hungry, and gun violence is now the leading cause of death for Americans under 18. Republicans have responded by giving kids the middle finger and using them as proxies in an anti-LGBTQ culture war crusade to rile up the most hateful elements of the Republican base. Specifically this bill would allow a single bigoted parent to dictate what kids are allowed to learn in public schools, but it is really just lack-of-virtue signaling. It won’t get a vote in the Senate, and if it did somehow make it through the chamber, President Biden would veto it so hard the resolute desk would never be the same.

Trump’s next rally exposed as plot to instigate anti-government extremists
The disgraced former president has chosen Waco, Texas for his rally today, smack dab in the middle of the 30th anniversary of the Waco massacre, when an attempted raid by federal agents on a religious cult that had barricaded themselves inside a remote compound resulted in a 51-day siege that ended in a fire that left dozens dead. The event has long been used as a rallying cry for right-wing anti-government extremists, and it was explicitly cited by the white nationalist terrorist behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing as justification for that heinous crime. Spoiler alert: It’s not a coincidence.

AOC shreds Republicans over Rosa Parks book ban during impassioned speech
Speaking in opposition to the so-called “parents bill of rights” legislation passed Friday (see above), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admonished the GOP for their misplaced priorities. “‘The Life of Rosa Parks’ – this book is apparently too woke for the Republican Party. When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism.”

What is wrong with these people?

What in the world?

Out of this world

Hope…

Trump explicitly threatens Manhattan DA with violence in latest social media screed
The disgraced ex-president explicitly targeted New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg with an image of himself wielding a baseball bat aimed squarely at Bragg’s head. Seriously. We shouldn’t be surprised by now, but somehow this pathetic, feeble man still manages to find dangerous new ways to incite violence for the explicit purpose of undermining our institutions to save his own ass. We really have to ask: is there nothing he can do or say that will prompt anyone with any kind of authority to finally hold him accountable?

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis humiliates himself in cringey interview
Appearing on Piers Morgan’s not-long-for-this-world show on Fox News’ B-List streaming service, DeSantis withstood a demoralizing line of questioning from the thirsty British “journalist” about the many nicknames Trump has hurled at him, and essentially responded with “Thank you sir, may I have another!” The repugnant governor and presumptive GOP candidate for president has no problem bullying trans kids, mask-wearing high schoolers, and school librarians, but he still can’t seem the find the courage to stand up to the 76-year-old oaf bullying him.

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Anti-democracy politicians are bent on stealing the presidency
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North Carolina approves Medicaid expansion after years of pointless, negligent opposition
After spending more than a decade denying hundreds of thousands of their own citizens access to critical healthcare provided by the Affordable Care Act out of sheer spite, Republicans in the GOP-controlled General Assembly finally passed a bill to expand Medicaid to cover nearly every adult earning less than 133% of the federal poverty income level. How many North Carolinians needlessly suffered or died over the past 10-plus years due to the unconscionable delay?

Take Action: Tell Congress to defend Medicaid and CHIP!

Nebraska statehouse advances anti-trans bill banning gender affirming care
The unicameral Nebraska Legislature passed a horrendous bill banning gender-affirming care for minors — even with parental consent — despite the best efforts of several brave Democratic lawmakers filibustering to block any further legislation from moving through the statehouse this session. Nebraska Republicans’ latest legislative assault, along with a recently passed anti-trans bathroom bill, adds to the growing list of more than 150 state bills across the country restricting or eliminating the rights of transgender Americans.

New York DA issues epic response to GOP attacks and demands
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been the target of vicious assaults from unscrupulous, high-profile Republicans — including Jim Jordan, Rand Paul, and Kevin McCarthy — ever since the soon-to-be-indicted ex-president put a crosshair on his back. On Thursday, however, he finally responded with a thundering clapback, putting the GOP antics to shame.

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NAACP urges nationwide travel advisory against moving to or visiting Florida
It may sound like an outlandish warning, but it really isn’t. If Florida were a separate nation, the onslaught of anti-trans, anti-gay, anti-science, and anti-Black legislation rammed through by the GOP-controlled legislature and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis would likely prompt a warning from the US government cautioning American citizens about traveling there. All the NAACP is asking is, what’s the difference here?

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Republicans make fatal mistake amid impending Trump indictment
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: What a dumb move…

🚨 Brian Tyler Cohen launched a Spanish YouTube channel! The left has a huge problem reaching Spanish speaking audiences, and our vote share among Spanish speakers is actually declining, so please spread the Democrats’ message by subscribing to his channel (and watch some videos to get them going in the algorithm) by clicking here.

Kevin McCarthy meets with mom of insurrectionist traitor killed while storming the Capitol
MAGA minion and QAnon disciple Ashli Babbitt was at the front of Trump’s angry mob that stormed the US Capitol, attacked police, and began breaching a locked door leading to the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021. Despite multiple warnings by an armed security officer to back away, Babbitt leapt through a window she helped break and was shot with a single bullet and killed. This sequence of events is uncontested, and it was all caught on camera. Radical Republicans, however, desperately want to change the narrative, please Donald Trump, and make Babbitt some kind of martyr — something yesterday’s meeting between the House speaker and Babbitt’s mother was explicitly designed to do.

Kyrsten Sinema begs GOP for cash as decision on reelection looms
The first-term turncoat senator was elected as a Democrat — by Arizona Democrats who turned out in force for the 2020 election. But after a series of increasingly obnoxious antics blocking President Biden’s agenda on behalf of her billionaire, out-of-state donors for most of her first two years in office, Sinema turned on her voters and left the party. Now desperate for cash for reelection, she’s reportedly on a “sniping spree” against her Democratic colleagues, trashing them as “old dudes eating Jell-O” to any Republican gathering that welcomes her.

Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies due to state’s abortion ban
Bonner General Health currently serves about 9,000 people in and around Sandpoint, Idaho, but expecting families will soon have to travel an hour or more to find suitable care thanks to dystopian anti-choice legislation forcing OBGYN doctors to flee the state. “The Idaho Legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care,” the hospital’s press release reads, adding that consequences for doctors now include civil litigation, criminal prosecution, and even jail time.

GOP lawmaker pushed “holy war” with wide anti-trans coalition, emails reveal
A motley alliance of far-right extremists, Christian nationalists, anti-trans activists and lobbyists, and Republican elected officials has been uncovered in leaked emails from South Dakota state Rep. Fred Deutsch. The emails read like they were ripped from the script of an episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” with multiple and repeated phrases brimming with religious zealotry that celebrate being at war with the LGBTQ+ community.

Seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

Hope…